The Galaxy Note 8, like the Galaxy S8+, has an excellent radio that gets spectacular reception and call quality. It's only missing one thing: T-Mobile's new Band 71, which will give users additional rural coverage (it's currently only in the upcoming LG V30). That said, the Note 8 showed distinctly stronger signal on T-Mobile's network than an iPhone 7 being used in the same spot. The phone supports the full cadre of gigabit LTE technologies to extend coverage and speed; it shares that, right now, only with the Moto Z2 Force and other new Samsung devices. As we saw in our Fastest Mobile Networks study, that makes a distinct difference on speed.